Football Nicknames - Pelé, Pibe de Oro, Gazza, Becks, Zizou: A Century of Diminutives
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| The Beautiful Game found this 4/15/2008 on soccerlens.com [flag] |
Don’t call me Hugo any more. I’m English, don’t you know? So you have to change my name. At school, P.E. teachers insisted on branding me “Steckel” , although I suppose I should just be grateful I escaped that awful nom de plume that is the quintessentially British “Macca” .
It’s 10:30pm, and a day both frustrating and unproductive has truckled obeisantly past. I’ve seen the interview with ...
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Published 4/15/2008 by The Beautiful Game at The Beautiful Game
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